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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 11:4/אבן עזרא על דברים י״א:ד׳
אאשר הציף. מגזרת צפו מים על ראשי:
1HE MADE…TO OVERFLOW. The word hetzif (made to overflow) is related to the word tzafu (flowed)6. in Waters flowed over my head (Lam. 3:54).
בויאבדם. הטעם כי לא קמו עוד בניהם תחתיהם להיות כמוהם:
2DESTROYED THEM. Its meaning is, their children did not arise in their place to be like them.7. However, the Egyptians were not wiped off the face of the earth. Hence I.E.’s interpretation that the meaning of our verse is, God destroyed the type of Egyptians who enslaved and pursued the Israelites.